Imaging the Experiments on Respiration and Transpiration of Lavoisier and Séguin: Two Unknown Drawings by Madame Lavoisier

• Autores: Marco Beretta
• Localización: Nuncius: annali di storia della scienza, ISSN 0394-7394, Vol. 27, Nº. 1, 2012, págs. 163-191
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents two hitherto unknown drawings by Marie-Anne-Pierrette Lavoisier dating to the early 1790s that illustrate the experiments on respiration and transpiration of her husband Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his assistant Armand Séguin. These works may be associated with the well-known sepia drawings that were published for the first time by Edouard Grimaux in 1888. Details contained in theses newly discovered drawings by M.me Lavoisier provide fresh evidence as to the nature and aims of Lavoisier's innovative experiments. As we will show, theses drawings were intended to illustrate the collection of papers on respiration being prepared by Lavoisier for his Mémoires de physique et chimie (1792-1805).